The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phlegmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laide open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. Lately pend by T.W. Master of Artes.

Title

The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phlegmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laide open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. Lately pend by T.W. Master of Artes.

Author

Walkington, Thomas, d. 1621.

Publication

London :: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Martin Clerke, and are to be sold at his shop without Aldersgate,

1607.

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Temperament -- Early works to 1800.

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"The optick glasse of humors. Or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phlegmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth, and their externall intimates laide open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge of what complection he is, and answerably learne what is most sutable to his nature. Lately pend by T.W. Master of Artes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14665.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the right worshipful wise and learned Knight, Sir IVSTINIAN LEVVIN, T. W. wisheth euent of all FELICITIE.
• To the Reader,
• THE Titles and Contents of the seuerall Chapters as they are handled in in this present booke.
• text
  • Of Selfe knoweledge. Chap. 1.
  • Cap. 2. That the soule simpathizeth with the bo∣dy and followeth her crasis and temperature.
  • Cap. 3. Whether the internall faculty may be knowne by the externall physiognomie.
  • Cap. 4. That a diet is to bee obserued of eueryone.
  • Cap. 5. How man derogates from his excellency by surfet and of his vntimely death.
  • Cap. 6. Of Temperaments.
  • Cap. 7. Of diuersities of wit: and most accor∣ding to tempers.
  • Cap. 8. Of the Spirits.
  • Cap. IX, Of a cholerick complection.
  • Cap. X. Of a sanguine temperature.
  • Cap. 11. Of the Phlegmaticke humour.
  • Cap. 7. Of a me lancholicke complection.
  • Chap. 13. Of the conceits of Melancholy.
  • Cap. 14. Of the dreames of complections.
  • Cap. XV. Of the exactest temperature of all, whereof Lemnius speakes.
  • The Clôse.
    • Catastrophe lectori.